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||1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull – human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. | ||1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull – human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. | ||
||William Thomas Astbury FRS (also Bill Astbury; 25 February 1898, Longton – 4 June 1961, Leeds) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules.[2] His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix. He also studied the structure for DNA in 1937 and made the first step in the elucidation of its structure. | |||
||1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. | ||1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. | ||
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||1939 – The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London. | ||1939 – The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London. | ||
1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. | |||
||1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis. | |||
||1950 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) | ||1950 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) | ||
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1572: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses scrying engine make improved astronomical observations.
1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1864: Wallace War-Heels rescues lost band of travellers, gets them safely to Kansas City, then robs them of one-third of their money and possessions.
1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.